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Scientists replicate key evolutionary step in life on earth

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01-19-2012 3:05 AM 		Reply to: Message 1 by Butterflytyrant
01-17-2012 5:29 PM

I'm dubious, frankly. They seem to be highly overtaking things to me, for these reasons:
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1. Bakers yeast is unusual in being strictly unicellular. It evolved from multicellular ancestors.
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2. Apoptosis occurs in many unicellular organisms, it seems a leap to think they're behaving in a multicellular way because of it.
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3. Sticking together hardly counts as multicellular anyway.
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But I've not read the paper yet, only the article.
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